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David Megginson wrote: > Thank you very much for your comments. I'm not certain, however, that > either of these is a strong argument for SAX. > > In the first case, SAX is designed to report not the physical > appearance of the document but its logical structure -- it does not > preserve internal entity references in data or attribute value > literals, it does not distinguish defaulted attribute values from > specified ones, it does not preserve the internal DTD subset, > etc. etc. Deep unjoy. Is there any reason not to do both of these things - It wouldn't be that difficult. I remember a saying 'Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler'. It seems to me that this SAX effort might be letting the quest for simplicity eliminate a whole heap of useful applications. > In the second case, I think that it would be a very bad idea to > implement a JavaDoc-type facility using XML comments. JavaDoc has to > use comments because it is not possible to extend Java syntax; XML > allows you to define your own grammar, so the documentation can be > part of the fundamental element structure. For example, instead of > > <!-- ** Record for David Megginson ** --> > <record> > <www>http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/</www> > <email>dmeggins@m...</email> > </record> > > you should use > > <record> > <doc>Record for David Megginson</doc> > <www>http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/</www> > <email>dmeggins@m...</email> > </record> I agree, but your example implies that my comments were about the data, rather than about the structure itself - I guess I should have pointed out that I'm interested in comments in the DTD, so that the DTD can be documented automatically. This is more like javadoc/idldoc. I'd love an xmldoc tool. I'm guessing now that SAX doesn't give me DTD events. I guess SAX is not that useful for me given it's intention (although I'm pleased to see your effort). Back to the drawing board for me :( +----------------------------------+ | Antony Blakey | | N-Space Pty Ltd | | Java - CORBA - SGML - XML | | mailto:antony@n... | | http://www.n-space.com.au | +----------------------------------+ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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